Get Away from Dubai's Skyscrapers and Start Eating on this New Food Tour

Dubai might be best known for zillion-star hotels, but for a different taste, Frying Pan Adventures offers the city’s first food tours. You'll sample food from all sorts of restaurants, including Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and Nepalese.

Dubai, the U.A.E’s capital of bling, might be best known for zillion-star hotels, but for a different taste, Frying Pan Adventures offers the city’s first food tours. Food fanatic Arva Ahmed leads three- to four-hour crawls around old Dubai, where you’ll sample treats from the Middle East and beyond: flaky Egyptian sweet-cheese-filled fiteer pastry; bumpy, chewy Iranian sangak bread; and momos—pan-fried Nepalese dumplings. Since many places lack signs and even addresses, Ahmed’s guidance is invaluable, and you’ll get to eat with your hands and actually walk—a novelty in this car-crazy metropolis (tours, $95 per person).